I found the comment below the article to be interesting.
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This is a total non-starter for any serious self-published author - and given the fees involved, this will exclude everyone else automatically. Firstly, the interface is cumbersome at best, with no way to upload complete files: cut and paste is the only option, and this is handled poorly. Graphics, for example, apparently have to be inserted manually wherever they occur, as my efforts to copy and paste entire blocks removed all graphics and only inserted the text. Several further attempts met with varying results, from double-spacing of single-spaced text to the deletion of paragraph indents. More importantly, the statement that Barnes & Noble does not provide an author with a copy of the ePub file produced through the PubIt! program is entirely false: there is a button right on the title edit page to download the file to your computer. Not to mention the many free converters available all over the internet. So they're charging you for something you can get for free elsewhere. In addition, an ISBN is unnecessary for selling eBooks anywhere online. Neither Amazon nor Barnes & Noble require one for publishing with them, instead assigning a standard inventory control number to any title without one. This program is dead on arrival.
--by: scotjohns @ 20101016174605
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